Whooo!
First year is so close to being done I can hardly handle it! Its actually ridiculous to think that I have almost finished a year of university. I can still remember, way back when I was just starting high school, that university seemed like centuries away. Well...now grade 8 seems like centuries away, but I guess that is really what growing up is all about. Its also weird to think that people younger than me, might view me as grown up...I still feel like I'm about 13!
It is interesting to see how perspectives change as we grow up, as we grow into the world. Today was the last team session of the Altitude Health Care Mentoring program, and I don't know if I have changed throughout this past year, I don't feel like I have at all. I am sure that I have in some ways, but you never really do feel like you are growing up, until you think back to when you weren't so 'grown up.' I have learned a lot this year, a lot about life, about learning how to deal with life and about who I can become.
I have faced a few challenges this year, like almost losing my right foot, a few disappointments in school, but most importantly I have learned that you can always rely on friends to get you through the dark times. There is always light at then end of the tunnel, and that darkness must come before the dawn. I don't know when the dawn in terms of pain will finally break through the night, but I do that it will, it has to.
So here is to a my first year. The first year that I realized there is more to life than just school, or friends, its about the experiences you chose to have and the ones you don't that make your life what it is and what it can be.
First year is so close to being done I can hardly handle it! Its actually ridiculous to think that I have almost finished a year of university. I can still remember, way back when I was just starting high school, that university seemed like centuries away. Well...now grade 8 seems like centuries away, but I guess that is really what growing up is all about. Its also weird to think that people younger than me, might view me as grown up...I still feel like I'm about 13!
It is interesting to see how perspectives change as we grow up, as we grow into the world. Today was the last team session of the Altitude Health Care Mentoring program, and I don't know if I have changed throughout this past year, I don't feel like I have at all. I am sure that I have in some ways, but you never really do feel like you are growing up, until you think back to when you weren't so 'grown up.' I have learned a lot this year, a lot about life, about learning how to deal with life and about who I can become.
I have faced a few challenges this year, like almost losing my right foot, a few disappointments in school, but most importantly I have learned that you can always rely on friends to get you through the dark times. There is always light at then end of the tunnel, and that darkness must come before the dawn. I don't know when the dawn in terms of pain will finally break through the night, but I do that it will, it has to.
So here is to a my first year. The first year that I realized there is more to life than just school, or friends, its about the experiences you chose to have and the ones you don't that make your life what it is and what it can be.
It's funny you're writing this. The other day I was looking at some first year photos and couldn't believe how fast time goes by. I remember thinking the exact same thing.
ReplyDeleteYou wont see it now, but over the course of the next four or five years your perspectives on alot of things will change pretty significantly. It seems to be the part of the university experience.
When you're 24 like me, chances are you'll look back and be pretty surprised at how you may have changed.
Also, Carpe Diem. University goes by so bloody fast, blink and you'll miss it!
Anyways, congrats on (almost) finishing first year. Second year twice as much fun!